Pair arrested in Hampton were out on bond
Two people charged after a series of recent carjackings, robberies
HAMPTON — An 18-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man arrested last week in a series of recent carjackings and robberies in Hampton were out on bond on other charges at the time, court records show.
Alice Marie Robinson, 18, of Clayton Drive in Hampton, was slated to enter a plea Wednesday in Newport News to charges of stealing a pickup and leading police on a high-speed chase down Warwick Boulevard last August.
But that hearing didn’t go forward because she was locked up at the Hampton City Jail on the new charges.
The other defendant, Alonzo Q. Tucker, 25, of Robbins Way in Hampton, has a trial slated for September on a charge that he robbed a man on a Hampton street in December 2019.
Court documents in Hampton General District Court this week contend that Robinson and Tucker worked together on several of the recent crimes.
The slew of cases began Feb. 26, when Robinson’s father, Alvin Robinson of Hampton, filed a police report saying his daughter took his truck without permission. That case is pending in Hampton Juvenile and Domestic Relations District
Court.
Then, just before 3 p.m. on March 1, an older Hampton couple was approached by a woman in front of their house on Newton Road. Police say Alice Robinson pulled out a gun and demanded their car keys, according to a criminal complaint affidavit.
The 78-year-old man complied, and police say Robinson drove away in their 2019 Hyundai Kona with handicap license plates. She ditched the car eight minutes later at the Cardoba Apartments on Spanish Trail, an affidavit says.
Two days later — at 7:39 p.m. on March 3 — an affidavit says Robinson walked into a Sunoco Gas Station on Aberdeen Road, waiting for customers to leave. Then she went behind the counter and ordered the clerk at gunpoint to open the register, the affidavit alleged,
The clerk obeyed, with Robinson grabbing $500 in cash. She “jogged from the store,” the affidavit said, getting into the passenger side of a dark 1999 Volkswagen Jetta parked at a nearby car wash.
Police say the Volkswagen was reported stolen on North King Street the night before. An affidavit says surveillance footage shows that car driving into the Cardoba Apartments just before 10 p.m., and that Robinson and Tucker walked into an apartment less than two minutes later.
The next day — at 12:34 p.m. on March 4 — court documents said the 6-foot11 Tucker handed Robinson a gun in the parking lot of the Cardoba Apartments.
Moments later, the affidavit said, the armed Robinson walked up to a 66-year-old woman who was walking from her car. “I need your keys,” Robinson told her, the affidavit said. The woman handed them over, and Robinson drove off in her 2000 Honda Civic.
About an hour later, at 1:44 p.m., a police officer spotted the Honda driving south on Little Back River Road, and pulled it over on North
King Street, the affidavit said. But when the officer got out to approach the car, Robinson sped away.
The officer gave chase, with speeds reaching about 50 mph on North King before Robinson turned onto a side street. She crashed into a 2016 Mercedes fourdoor SUV driving at the intersection of West Gilbert Street and Roane Drive.
No one was hurt. Robinson was taken into custody, with the affidavit saying she admitted to robbing the Honda, then throwing the gun out the window on Little Back River Road.
The next day, March 5, police spotted Tucker walking on North King Street. An affidavit said detectives chased him on foot and watched as he threw a gun into a nearby swamp before he was captured. Both guns have been recovered.
Robinson faces three counts of conspiracy, two counts of carjacking and one count of robbery. She’s also charged with several gun and traffic counts, eluding police and assaulting a police officer during the arrest.
Tucker — who has several prior felony convictions in Hampton — is charged with two counts apiece of robbery, conspiracy and using a gun in a felony. He was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon and a drug possession count.
The Newport News plea hearing that didn’t go forward for Robinson on Wednesday pertained to a car theft and police chase in that city on Aug. 3.
She’s accused of stealing a Dodge Durango pickup from a 7-Eleven on Nettles Drive at 3:15 a.m., then leading police on a chase down Warwick Boulevard. Police say she reached 96 mph as the pursuit began on Warwick.
But police say Robinson lost control of the pickup near Riverside Regional Medical Center, hit a median, blew out a front tire, and drove for a time on the wrong side of Warwick before getting back on the correct side and hitting a food truck and parked car near Hilton Village.
She ran from the disabled car and was arrested near Piez Avenue.
Tucker is slated for trial in September on a Hampton charge of robbing a man on a Hampton street in December 2019.
Both defendants are being held without bond at the Hampton City Jail, with a May 18 court date.